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-Minister of Water and Irrigation Dr. Hazem Al-Nasser, and Chairman the Board of Arab Potash Company (APC) Mr. Jamal Al Sarayrah signed an agreement today, Sunday 8/11/2015 at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation by which APC would provide four million Dinars to fully finance the construction of Wadi Al Wadat Dam in Tafilah Governorate.
The agreement follows a similar agreement signed in January 2014 to finance the construction of Wadi Ibn Hammad Dam to the value of JD 26 million.
Dr. Al-Nasser stressed at the signing ceremony that “the Arab Potash Company is one of the Jordan’s leading companies in supporting government and local community organizations in all parts of the Kingdom.” Dr. Al Nasser added that “financing the construction of Wadi Al Wadat Dam to the value of JD 4 million by APC comes in response to citizens’ needs in the southern regions for such dams, which will provide water to the people of Tafilah. The minister expressed his pride “at the strategic partnership with the Arab Potash Company, which contributed to many solutions for water challenges facing the South.”
For his part, Mr. Jamal Al Sarayrah said that “financing the dam is in line with the vision of His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein that the first priority is a better life for all Jordanians. Wadi Al Wadat Dam and Wadi Ibn Hammad Dam will provide water for drinking and agriculture to citizens in the largest concentration of pockets of poverty in the Kingdom, and they will address some of APC’s needs for water.” Mr. Al Sarayrah added that APC and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation work continuously to find suitable solutions to the water problem in the south, in the context of APC’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) program.
Construction of Wadi Al Wadat Dam will be carried out in cooperation between the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Arab Potash Company, and it is expected to be completed in two to three years, after which rain water will be harvested in the dam at a capacity of 0.5 million cubic meters.
